Food Truck

Mean Bird Food Truck

Now booking events for 2018! We’re looking for festivals, parades, food events, art shows, concerts and more to bring our street eats to the RVA area! Not to mention private events—you’ll see us around the state catering weddings, birthday parties, and more throughout 2018! Know an event Mean Bird might be a good fit for? Send inquiries to giddyup@meanbirdrva.com! You can also visit our Catering page to see more information on private events.

Grab your rolling pins, dust off the old family cookbooks, and call up your Great Aunt Sally for her secret ingredient list because Saturday, March 24th marks the first ever Southern Food Festival and Amateur Southern Dish Competition! 5 incredible food vendors (Grandpa Eddie's Alabama Ribs & BBQ, Mean Bird, Jake's Place, Mama J's, and Early Bird Biscuit Co.) will each show off their Southern Food Specialty with $3 small plates for you to savor while enjoying the festivities. Winners of the Amateur Southern Dish Competition will be announced and CASH PRIZES awarded at the festival. 2 amazing bands (Buckville Hootenanny and Commonwealth Bluegrass Band) + 2 special beer releases will make this a day like no other. This event will benefit the Ashland VA Rotary Club, who will hold raffles and a huge silent auction for charity and the YMCA will be on site with fun activities for kids.

5 wonderful Southern Food vendors will come together and showcase their individual Southern Food Specialties with $3 small plates. Vendors may also offer their full menus, however pricing and quantities will be dependent upon individual vendors.

AMATEUR SOUTHERN DISH COMPETITION

Center of the Universe is proud to present the first ever Amateur Southern Dish Competition. Do you think that you cook the best darn Southern food around? Are you ready to put your money where your mouth is?! With 10 categories (5 savory and 5 sweet) we'll make it easy for you to prove to your friends & family once and for all that you're the best there is. Categories are $5 each to enter, and you may enter as many categories as you would like. 1/2 of the entry fees will go to the charity and the other 1/2 will be offered as CASH PRIZES for the winners. The more popular a category, the higher the cash prize!

If you would like to compete in the Amateur Southern Dish Competition, please email info@cotubrewing.com beginning on MONDAY FEB 5th for more information. Please follow the link below for the application:

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Mean Bird is back at Hardywood for more bird brunch! Come grab some food to take back home or to help you brave the beer lines---Hardywood is releasing their Foolery AND Bourbon Barrel Cru starting at noon.

Hardywood Bourbon Barrel CruAbbey-style Quadrupel Aged in Bourbon BarrelsHardywood Bourbon Barrel Cru is brewed in the fashion of the abbey quadrupel, the grand cru of many of Belgium’s revered monastic breweries. Bourbon Cru displays a sunset orange hue with a substantial head and brilliant clarity after months of barrel aging. The maturity and melding of flavors brought on by the freshly drained bourbon barrels lends an extraordinary sense of harmony to Bourbon Barrel Cru. Almond toffee and oaky vanilla aromatics give way to dark cherries, raisins and mature whiskey. A bit of plum flavor is greeted by caramel overtones and an assertive yet incredibly rounded body and a lingering, bourbon-laced finish.

As a special treat, we will also tap a single keg of Fanfare, our wild mulberry cider. This cider has not been produced in three years due to late spring freezes, but we have just enough mulberries from the 2017 harvest to create this small batch.

More details to follow, including info on our limited Grand Tasting workshops!

The food truck will be set up at Isley Brewing Company Sunday February 25th, 11:00- 3:00pm (or until the food runs out--whichever comes first!). Don't worry, Isley will open early for the occasion--there will be morning beers!

Our brunch menu pairs our Craft Fried Chicken and vegan Veggie Bird with brunch essentials like waffles and biscuits (both available vegan). Follow us on social media for specials!